fac-simile

Noun

facsimile (countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540

   Synonyms:

   autotype, copy, reproduction, facsimile reproduction, fax

2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
   • Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images by means of radio or a telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.

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